Sunday
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Staff / Welcome and Introduction from the Chairs
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Keynote Session: The Neural Circuitry of Consciousness and Unconsciousness
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm
"Consciousness and Sleep"
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm
"Probing Theories of Consciousness"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Mechanisms of Consciousness and Unconsciousness
9:00 am - 9:30 am
"Cortical and Thalamic Microcircuits Underlying EEG Signals Across Different Conscious and Unconscious States in Mice"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
"When the World Fades Away: Predictive Coding and the Neural Correlates of Disconnected Consciousness"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
"Consciousness and the Brain's Macroscale Spatiotemporal Architecture"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
"From Synchrony to Asynchrony in the Local Network: Cellular and Network Mechanisms of Transitions Across Brain States"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The GRC Power Hour™
The GRC Power Hour™ is designed to address the interests and needs of all scientists and the challenges they face in their careers. Specifically, the program promotes meaningful conversations amongst colleagues of all career stages about barriers to career advancement and strategies to support the professional growth of all members of the community. The GRC Power Hour™ is open to all conference participants.
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Disorders of Consciousness
6:00 pm - 6:30 pm
"Covert Consciousness in Patients with Severe Brain Injury"
6:30 pm - 6:40 pm
Discussion
6:40 pm - 7:10 pm
"Assessing Coma and Disorders of Consciousness Using EEG Dynamics at Rest and in Response to Anesthesia"
7:10 pm - 7:20 pm
Discussion
7:20 pm - 7:50 pm
"To fMRI or Not to fMRI? Translating the Science of Disorders of Consciousness Into Clinical Practice"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Mechanisms of Anesthetic-Induced "Unconsciousness"
9:00 am - 9:30 am
"A Mesopontine Node for Anesthetic Induction and Loss of Consciousness"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
"Non-Anesthetics as Tools to Understand Anesthesia"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
"Reversible Transitions Between States of Consciousness"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
"An Optoelectrical Approach to Understand Sleep, Anesthesia, and Consciousness"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Anesthetic Emergence and Cognitive Recovery
6:00 pm - 6:30 pm
"Towards Whole Brain Capture for Anesthetic State Modulation"
6:30 pm - 6:40 pm
Discussion
6:40 pm - 7:10 pm
"Role of Dopaminergic Circuits in Conscious and Cognitive Recovery Following General Anesthesia"
7:10 pm - 7:20 pm
Discussion
7:20 pm - 7:50 pm
"Elucidating Functional Anesthetic Targets in Mitochondria"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
9:00 am - 9:30 am
"The Electrophysiological Correlates of Dreams and Other Conscious Experiences in Sleep"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
"Sensory Disconnection in Sleep and Anesthesia: Neural Correlates and Underlying Mechanisms"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
"Blurring the Lines: Wake and Sleep, Not Two Mutually Exclusive States"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
"Anesthesia-Induced Dreaming"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Hibernation and Sleep Across Diverse Species
6:00 pm - 6:30 pm
"Effects of Torpor and Other Hypometabolic States on Brain Activity and Behavior"
6:30 pm - 6:40 pm
Discussion
6:40 pm - 7:10 pm
"Evolutionarily Conserved Role of Calcium and Phosphorylation in Sleep and Its Implications for Anesthesia"
7:10 pm - 7:20 pm
Discussion
7:20 pm - 7:50 pm
"Cold Adaptation Strategies Across Species: Deviating from Stasis in Homeostasis"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair(s); Complete the GRC Evaluation Forms; Election of the Next Vice Chair(s)
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Altered States of Consciousness and Mental Health
9:00 am - 9:30 am
"Circuit Mechanisms Underlying the Anxiolytic Actions of Serotonergic Psychedelics"
9:30 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:15 am
"The Clinical Pharmacology of Psychedelics and MDMA"
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am
"Psychedelics, Anesthesia, and Dreaming"
11:30 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:15 pm
"Unlocking the Therapeutic Action of Psychotropic Agents by Imaging Neuronal Circuits in the Living Rodent Brain"
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
The Evolution of Consciousness
6:00 pm - 6:30 pm
"On the Brain of Sleeping Dragons"
6:30 pm - 6:40 pm
Discussion
6:40 pm - 7:10 pm
"Comparative Anaesthesiology: An Evolutionary Approach to Consciousness"
7:10 pm - 7:20 pm
Discussion
7:20 pm - 7:50 pm
"Consciousness is (Not) Something Else: Challenges for Theories and an Illusionist Alternative"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure